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Month: January 2009

In my last post MySQL Query Cache, WP-Cache, APC, Memcache – What to choose, I discussed in brief about 4 caching technologies which you might have used knowingly or unknowingly. Towards the end we came to a conclusion that memcached is the best caching solution when you are looking for speed and number of hits per second. By my experience, memcached is capable of handling more than a 100 Million PV’s per month without any problem. However, towards the end I did also discussed why memcached is unreliable and unsecure. In this post I will dig a level deeper into […]

Hello Cache Freaks, Ever since I changed my job (from Business Intelligence to Web development) and started working with my present employer, I have had a chance to work on a lot of scalable projects. From making my project to scale from 20 Million PV’s to 100 Million PV’s to development of an internal tool, the answer to all scalable applications have been caching. There are a lot of caching techniques which are being employed by sites worldwide. WP-Cache used in wordpress – a file system based caching mechanism APC Cache – an opcode based caching system Memcache – an […]

Hello Everyone, I wish I could have finished this task by 1st January, but nevertheless it’s finally done. Finally I have a new self designed wordpress theme named “Jhantu”. Also I have moved my blog from a shared hosting to my VPS due to increasing traffic. Transition from one server to another is always painful. Here are the steps which I followed to make my server move smooth: I took a dump of my blog last week and started developing new theme locally on my windows system Yesterday before moving to VPS, I took the latest dump of wordpress blog […]

The most funny part of knowing XMPP protocol is that you can execute all your daily web needs using it. Be it playing anagram online or achieving your status messages. And your life gets easy if you are using an XMPP Client Library like JAXL. Here I have tried to create a simple bot which allows you to read newest links posted on dzone category wise. Simply add [email protected] in your gtalk messenger and start by typing options. Available options are: frontpage: Will send you latest links on frontpage. queue: Will send you latest links in queue. tag: Send in […]